Maybe the clause they inserted "to run a computer" helped make the design unique enough to be granted a patent. You could proclaim 'Prior art' if your deep fryer ran Linux though...
Instead of unleashing it on an unsuspecting public like this, some guerilla-warfare tactics could or should have been employed.
1. Leak a memo or internal email about this next-gen Windows desktop, kodenamed KDE4.
2. A few days later, 'leak' a few screenshots and/or YouTube videos showing wobbly windows and pagerrific desktops and cuba goodness.
3. Have a Mac rumour site also post some to show it's cross platform.
4. Leak a beta version (At this point GNOME could pull the rug off everyone by releasing and proclaiming that this was what the rumours were all about, but see alternative approach step 6).
5. Show some vids with Carmen Electra using it at CES (even if the vid was all CGI). Or Britney going mental 'after using Windows Vista' (all voice over of course, same newsclip you've seen a hundred times already).
6. Now release KDE4. (Here GNOME could do a preemptive strike, complete with press release about desktop wannabees or posers that will soon 'start coming out of the woodwork'. They could even point a finger at the source of the suspected 'leaks'.)
Right now I've only walked over those white boxes with the red cross on them, and it's only gotten me bonus health points. Only recently I've discovered the black box gives me Berserker! mode. What is this America's Army you speak of?
What do you tell your buddies when they feel the shock?
"Oh, it's the new anti-theft feature they've built into the Dell. I've set it to stun, but you're on my friends and family list. The higher end models have a self destruct mechanism built into their batteries, in case your data is so sensitive that it should not fall into the wrong hands. Believe me, people have found out that they weren't on somebody's list the hard way."
Finally, a laptop that fits onto the fold-down table of an airline seat, with plenty of room for your coffee beside it.
The ultimate tech review would have the reviewer book a flight to check this out. In fact, every review of a subnotebook should have a 2D diagram of a fold-down table, with a shaded representation of the notebook's footprint on it.
Pardon my ignorance, but did the eee come with a builtin webcam? I don't see too many people commenting on it, so I can't be certain. Neither did the author IIRC...
Was the nLited XP something you snagged off the 'net, or the one that came on a CD (only mentioned windows drivers in TFA)? Does this mean you dual-boot, or you had to hose Xandros? I'm curious now...
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Yet impressive enough for a Klingon officer to turn and say,
"Commander, this confirms that the inhabitants are hostile. Shall we assume battle stations?"
Commander: "We are Klingons. What other stations do we have?"
You posting on /., you could still shorten that to
I defy you to find me one woman.
Maybe the clause they inserted "to run a computer" helped make the design unique enough to be granted a patent. You could proclaim 'Prior art' if your deep fryer ran Linux though...
I thought this was the right crowd to do that sort of thing.
...and a new chair...
apparently unable to come up with any explanation
"'Gentlemen, what we have here is a terrifying example of the reindeer effect.'" - Jack Handey
...a dog reads YOUR list and says, He could have written 'Artificial intelligence approaching at most Dog Level. Hmph!'
I'm waiting 1 more month to be tested since some don't show until 6 months.
or 9 months, and usually you get to find out the results on sordid TV daytime shows like Springer or Maury. The tests usually involve DNA...
Would this run on my Thinkpad 600 that still has Win95 and DOS on it? I could download it on that one...
the next Ubuntu release!
They can also call it Hasta La Vista to avoid lawsuits.
Instead of unleashing it on an unsuspecting public like this, some guerilla-warfare tactics could or should have been employed.
1. Leak a memo or internal email about this next-gen Windows desktop, kodenamed KDE4.
2. A few days later, 'leak' a few screenshots and/or YouTube videos showing wobbly windows and pagerrific desktops and cuba goodness.
3. Have a Mac rumour site also post some to show it's cross platform.
4. Leak a beta version (At this point GNOME could pull the rug off everyone by releasing and proclaiming that this was what the rumours were all about, but see alternative approach step 6).
5. Show some vids with Carmen Electra using it at CES (even if the vid was all CGI). Or Britney going mental 'after using Windows Vista' (all voice over of course, same newsclip you've seen a hundred times already).
6. Now release KDE4. (Here GNOME could do a preemptive strike, complete with press release about desktop wannabees or posers that will soon 'start coming out of the woodwork'. They could even point a finger at the source of the suspected 'leaks'.)
7. ????
8. ob. Profit!
Wait a minute, everybody hush up! (crowd quiets down)
Pennies in your console? You charge your friends to come play with you?
Right now I've only walked over those white boxes with the red cross on them, and it's only gotten me bonus health points. Only recently I've discovered the black box gives me Berserker! mode. What is this America's Army you speak of?
Heh first Thinkpad I've seen that came with a rocket launcher. :)
Where'd you obtain the TP? Dynamism or Japan?
I thought you meant this.
What do you tell your buddies when they feel the shock?
"Oh, it's the new anti-theft feature they've built into the Dell. I've set it to stun, but you're on my friends and family list. The higher end models have a self destruct mechanism built into their batteries, in case your data is so sensitive that it should not fall into the wrong hands. Believe me, people have found out that they weren't on somebody's list the hard way."
The last guy they did send to verify the facts was only able to send this much:
"The Ravenous Giant Rodent of Earth often makes a good meal"
and we never heard from him again. Ford, are you working on anything right now? Other than finishing your drink, that is.
and the side mirror. To see what's following you from low moon orbit.
For some strange reason, in most cases the intelligence you're referring to seems to be situated behind the driver, hence the term 'back seat driver'.
Cue the 'Can it run Vista Extended Directors Cut Professional Edition for the Enterprise?' in three...two...one
Wouldn't it be battery time AND price?
Finally, a laptop that fits onto the fold-down table of an airline seat, with plenty of room for your coffee beside it.
The ultimate tech review would have the reviewer book a flight to check this out. In fact, every review of a subnotebook should have a 2D diagram of a fold-down table, with a shaded representation of the notebook's footprint on it.
Pardon my ignorance, but did the eee come with a builtin webcam? I don't see too many people commenting on it, so I can't be certain. Neither did the author IIRC...
Was the nLited XP something you snagged off the 'net, or the one that came on a CD (only mentioned windows drivers in TFA)? Does this mean you dual-boot, or you had to hose Xandros? I'm curious now...
Can't we have one meeting that doesn't end with digging up a corpse?